African indigenous religions and disease causation : from spiritual beings to living humans /

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This comparative and historical study focuses on religious aspects of disease etiologies among five, systematically selected, African peoples: the San, Maasai, Sukuma, Kongo and Yoruba. Unlike the homogenizing tendencies of many earlier comparative works by scholars of religion, this book highlights...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Westerlund, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:Studies on religion in Africa ; 28.
Subjects:
Diseases > Religious aspects.
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation.
Religion.
Witchcraft.
Religion
Medicine, African Traditional
Witchcraft
Maladies > Aspect religieux.
Étiologie.
Sorcellerie.
religion (discipline)
witchcraft.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation
Diseases > Religious aspects
Godsdiensten.
Medische aspecten.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Religion.
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Africa South of the Sahara
Afrique subsaharienne > Religion.
Afrique subsaharienne.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Afrika.
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